Viewing or detecting a BOM in a file

[Ted Stresen-Reuter]

Hi,

I suspect I'm working with files that have.a BOM present but when I open the file in BBEdit, I'm not seeing the encoding "Unicode (UTF-8, with BOM)".

Is there any way to inspect the document in such a way that I can actually see the BOM?

Thanks in advance.

Ted

[Patrick Woolsey]

On May 11, 2021, at 12:10, Ted Stresen-Reuter <tedmas...@gmail.com> wrote:

I suspect I'm working with files that have.a BOM present but when I open the file in BBEdit, I'm not seeing the encoding "Unicode (UTF-8, with BOM)".

Is there any way to inspect the document in such a way that I can actually see the BOM?

Since under normal circumstances, BBEdit will not (and should not) read a BOM into the associated file's contents, you'll need to directly examine the disk file and File -> Hex Dump File... should do the job. :-)

Regards,

 Patrick Woolsey

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[Ted Stresen-Reuter]

Bingo! Thank you Patrick!

Ted

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